Honey Quotes - Page 25

• Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

  Orson Scott Card

  Successful, Secret, Way

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• But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

  Angela Thirkell

  Loss, Would Be, Human Nature

  Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

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• God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Men, White, People

  Sandra Cisneros (1991). “Woman Hollering Creek, and Other Stories”, Random House Incorporated

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• The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool.

  Frances Mayes

  Looks, Landscape, Bread

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• I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from the South /'Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But honey, let me tell you that I love the way he talks.

  Eloise Greenfield

  Cousin, Talking, Mouths

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• It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Book, Ambition, Spices

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• I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

  Faith Sullivan

  Writing, Disease, Madness

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• You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.

  Hugh Elliot

  Writing, Mean, Knows

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• Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Makeup, Eyelashes, Graves

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• I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

  Montgomery Clift

  Want Something, People, Energy

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• The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stupid, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.218, Modern Library

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• Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.

  George Herbert

  Pay

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• Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin, and its moisturizing. You can use it every day if you want. Its so gentle.

  Jessica Pare

  Skins, Use, Want

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• blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

  Ursula Curtiss

  Milk And Honey, Land, Age

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• Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?

  Lou Reed

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• Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Principles, Example, Would Be

  Thomas Jefferson, Allen Jayne (1984). “The religious and moral wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: an anthology”

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• When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.

  Amy Childs

  Beach, Holiday, Looks

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• I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

  Vijender Singh

  Artist, Bollywood, Music Love

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• What would people look like
  if we could see them as they are,
  soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
  reckless, pinned against time?

  Ellen Bass

  People, Looks, Reckless

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• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Daughter, Sweet, Character

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• The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!

  Tony Evans

  Mistake, Wife, Scary

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• A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Poetry, Age, Corn

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Running, Men

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• slowly the pale
  dew-beads of light
  lapped up from flowers
  can thicken,
  darken to gold:
  honey of the human.

  Denise Levertov

  Flower, Light, Gold

  Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• Beespittle, droppings, hairs
  of beefur: all become honey.
  Virulent micro-organisms cannot
  survive in honey.

  Denise Levertov

  Hair, Dropping, Organisms

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.213, New Directions Publishing

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